Roasting spit

ABSTRACT

The roasting spit includes an elongated shaft of substantially square section, one end of the shaft is provided with a handle and the opposite end transversely secures a disk provided with transverse perforations adjacent the rim thereof. A round sleeve is slidable upon the square shaft, the sleeve provided with a handle for moving the sleeve, the opposite end of the sleeve being square sectioned and provided with a central disk of smaller diameter than the disk secured to the square shaft. A further sleeve is secured to the shaft handle and telescopically receives the round sleeve. Tines are secured to the small diameter disk and project through the perforations of the larger disk whereby the round sleeve handle is moved forwardly the tines flare beyond the larger disk, the tines being drawn inwardly of the larger disk when the sleeve handle is moved toward the shaft handle. Thus various food items such as wieners, may be impaled upon the tines whereby the food article may be roasted over a fire, the food articles being released from the tines when the sleeve is moved by its handle to retract the smaller diameter disk and to retract the tines.

United States Patent [1 1 Delamater 1 ROASTING SPIT William B.Delamater, 9114 Valley View, Whittier, Calif. 90603 [22] Filed: Jan. 4,1972 [21] Appl. No.: 215,298

[76] Inventor:

Primary Examiner-William 1. Price Assistant Examiner-Arthur 0. HendersonAtt0rney.l. Calvin Brown July 17, 1973 ABSTRACT shaft. A further sleeveis secured to the shaft handle 7 and telescopically receives the roundsleeve. Tines are secured to the small diameter disk and project throughthe perforations of the larger disk whereby the round sleeve handle ismoved forwardly the tines flare beyond the larger disk, the tines beingdrawn inwardly of the larger disk when the sleeve handle is moved towardthe shaft handle. Thus various food items such as wieners, may beimpaled upon the tines whereby the food article may be roasted over atire, the food articles being released from the tines when the sleeve ismoved by its handle to retract the smaller diameter disk and to retractthe tines.

6 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures ROASTING SPIT BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe device relates to retractable spits or tines of the type which mayimpale or hold a food article and, likewise, release said food articlefrom the tines or the spit.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The invention provides an easy method ofroasting food articles over a coal fire particularly for barbeques. Anelongated substantially square sectioned shaft is provided at one endwith a fixed handle which may be grasped by the user. The opposite endof the shaft centrally secures a transverse disk which may beprovidedwith equidistantly spaced perforations or bores adjacent the rimthereof. A round sleeve is slidable upon the square shaft and the sleeveis square sectioned for a given distance at one end thereof so as toprevent turning movement relative to the shaft. The round sleeve is ofsmall diameter and is movable into a larger diameter sleeve secured tothe fixed handle for the shaft. A disk of smaller diameter than thefirst named disk is centrally secured to the small diameter round sleeveat the squared end portion thereof. Tines are secured to the smalldiameter disk and'passed through the perforations of the larger disk. Ahandle is carried by the round sleeve of small diameter and the handleis so positioned relative to said sleeve that the handle may move thesmaller sleeve inward of the larger diameter sleeve secured to the fixedhandle of the square shaft. This movement will, likewise, move the smalldisk and cause separation between the large disk and the small disk toretract the tines relative to the large disk, the two disks being ofdifferent diameter cause the tines to flare outwardly beyond the largedisk when the disks approach each other and to retract the tines whenthe disks are separated. The sleeve of larger diameter limits theretraction of the tines as the handle carried by the small diametersleeve will engage an end of said larger diameter sleeve. The squaresectioned end of the sleeve of small diameter limits the approach of thetwo disks.

An object of the invention is to provide a roasting spit which mayeasily impale or receive various objects to beheld by the tines when thetines are flared outwardly. The food article to be roasted is to be heldby handles which are formed of a non-heat conducting material andthedevice is easily manipulated so as, to readily engage the foodarticle and to release the food article after being roasted.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. I is a perspective view of theroasting spit, looking from the handle end toward the tine end;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view looking from the tine end of the roastingspit toward the handle end;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of FIG. 1, on an enlargedscale;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view onthe line 4-4 of FIG. 1, and on an enlargedscale;

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the disk shown in FIG. 4; and,

FIG. 6 is a sectional view on the line 6-6 of FIG. 1, and on an enlargedscale.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The roasting spit includes anelongated square shaft 1 provided with a handle 2 for one end of saidshaft as shown at 3 in pressed fit engagement. The opposite end of thesquare shaft is centrally secured to a transverse disk 4, the disk beingprovided with transverse perforations 5 which are equidistantly spacedapart and adjacent the rim of said disk. In the present instance fourperforations are shown for illustrative purposes only. A small diameterround sleeve 6 closely embraces the square shaft and the outer end ofsaid sleeve 6 is provided with a square sectioned portion 7, the squaresectioned portion 7 is slidable upon the square shaft to preventrotation of the sleeve 6 on the shaft. Centrally secured to the sleeve 6at the junction between the round portion and the squared portion 7 is adisk 8 of lesser diameter than the disk 4. The disk 8 is provided withtransverse perforations 9 equidistantly spaced apart and of the samenumber thereof as contained in the disk 4. Disk 8 is provided withspaced notches 10 leading from the rim of the disk toward theperforations 9 but not intersecting the perforations. A single notch 10and a perforation 9 lie upon a radius of the disk. Tines 11 areprovided, the number thereof corresponding to the number of perforationsin each disk, that is to say, four tines. One end of each tine is bentto form a curved book, as shown at 12. A length of the tine is passedthrough a perforation 9 and the hook is received in a notch 10. The mainlength of each tine is passed through a perforation 5 of disk 4.

A handle 13 is carried by the round sleeve 6 and is in pressed fitengagement therewith. A large diameter round sleeve 14 surrounds sleeve6 is pressed fit engagement within an end of the handle 2 as shown at15. The outer end of sleeve 14 is swaged inwardly as shown at 16 to fitclosely upon the sleeve 6. An end of the handle I3 is adapted to engagethe end 16 of the sleeve 15 to limit movement thereof in one directionwhile the square sectioned sleeve 7 limits movement of the sleeve in theopposite direction. Thus, when the handle -2 is grasped in one hand bythe user of the device, the handle 13 may be moved from the full lineposition of FIGS. 2 and 3, to the dotted line position 17 of FIG. 3.Inward movement of the handle 13 maintains the tines in the positionshown in FIG. 2 and by full lines in FIG. 3. The dotted line position 17for said handle 13 moves the disk 8 toward the disk 4 to extend thetines beyond disk 4 and to cause a flare of the tines as shown in thedotted line position for said tines in FIG. 3. The length of the squaresleeve portion 7 limits the approach between the two disks. Movement ofthe handle 13 from the dotted line position 17 of FIG. 3 to the fullline position of said Figure retracts the tines from the dotted lineposition of said Figure to the full line position.

In FIG. I the food articles such as wieners are shown in dotted lines at20, the wieners being impaled upon the tines and when so impaled thefood carrying end of the spit may be held adjacent coals or otherheating medium such as shown at 21 for the purpose of roasting orotherwise heating the food article. When the food articles have beenheated the desired amount, the bandle 13 may be moved from the positionshown in FIG. 1 to the position shown in FIG. 2 which will retract thetines relative to the disk 4 and dislodge the food articles as shown inFIG. 2 at 22.

The present roasting spit is superior to means now employed such as theuse of a fork for impaling the food article such as a wiener than usingsome extraneous implement for removing the wieners from the fork.

The device is sanitary and performs its function of the impaling and theremoval of a food article by the same device without employment ofextraneous devices or use-of the hands to apply the food article to thetines or to remove the same from the tines. lf chunks of meat are to beroasted the tines may be employed in the full flared position as shownin FIGS. 1 and 3 with the meat article positioned between the tines. Theroasting of the food article will then follow after which the foodarticle may then be released on a plate by retracting the tines.

The device is easily cleaned and movement of the tines through theperforations of the larger diameter disk tends to remove any foodadhering to said tines and a simple washing of the device is all that isnecessary to maintain the same sanitary. The tines and associated disksconstitute the head of the spit while the handles are means formanipulating elements of the head.

I claim:

1. A roasting spit comprising an elongated square cross sectioned shaft,a sleeve carried on said shaft for slide movement thereon, a first diskcentrally secured to one end of the shaft, a second disk of smallerdiameter than the first disk centrally secured to the sleeve, each diskprovided with the same number of spaced apart perforations, and tinespassed through the perforations of the first disk and rockably securedin the perforations of the second disk, movement of the sleeve in onedirection causing the disks to approach to move the tines to a flaredposition beyond the first disk and movement of the sleeve in theopposite direction separating the disks and retracting the tinesbetweenthe retracted position thereof or an extended position.

5. A roasting spit, including: a square sectioned shaft, a fixed handlefor one end of said shaft, a round sleeve carried on said shaft one endof said round sleeve having a square sectioned portion fitting upon thesquare sectioned shaft for preventing relative rotation therebetween,the outer end of said square sectioned shaft provided centrally with adisk having transverse perforations adjacent the rim thereof, a seconddisk of smaller diameter than the first mentioned disk carried by theround sleeve and tines rockably secured to the second disk and extendingthrough the perforations of the first disk whereby movement of thesecond disk toward the first disk causes the tines to advance in a flarebeyond the first disk and separation between said disks retracting thetines between said disks.

6. The device as set forth in claim 5, and a sleeve type handle carriedby the round sleeve for manipulating said sleeve when the first handleis held.

1. A roasting spit comprising an elongated square cross sectioned shaft,a sleeve carried on said shaft for slide movement thereon, a first diskcentrally secured to one end of the shaft, a second disk of smallerdiameter than the first disk centrally secured to the sleeve, each diskprovided with the same number of spaced apart perforations, and tinespassed through the perforations of the first disk and rockably securedin the perforations of the second disk, movement of the sleeve in onedirection causing the disks to approach to move the tines to a flaredposition beyond the first disk and movement of the sleeve in theopposite direction separating the disks and retracting the tines betweenthe two disks.
 2. The device as set forth in claim 1, the square shaftprovided at one end with a handle for manipulating the device.
 3. Thedevice as set forth in claim 1, the round sleeve provided with a sleevetype handle for moving the sleeve and the second disk.
 4. The device asset forth in claim 1, wherein the square shaft is provided with an endhandle and a sleeve extending beyond said end handle in axial alignmenttherewith for receiving the first sleeve in either a retracted positionthereof or an extended position.
 5. A roasting spit, including: a squaresectioned shaft, a fixed handle for one end of said shaft, a roundsleeve carried on said shaft one end of said round sleeve having asquare sectioned portion fitting upon the square sectioned shaft forpreventing relative rotation therebetween, the outer end of said squaresectioned shaft provided centrally with a disk having transverseperforations adjacent the rim thereof, a second disk of smaller diameterthan the first mentioned disk carried by the round sleeve and tinesrockably secured to the second disk and extending through theperforations of the first disk whereby movement of the second disktoward the first disk causes the tines to advance in a flare beyond thefirst disk and separation between said disks retracting the tinesbetween said disks.
 6. The device as set forth in claim 5, and a sleevetype handle carried by the round sleeve for manipulating said sleevewhen the first handle is held.